Teachers play an improtant role in the healt status of the child. It is a precedure by which a child care provider assets the health status of a child upon arriving to the child care program for the day. Every day; a trained staff member shall conduct a health check of each child. This health check shall be conducted as soon as possible after the child enters child care and whenever a change occurs while that child is in care. The child care provider shall gain information necessary to complete the daily health check by direct observation of the child, by querying the parent or legal guardian, and, where applicable, by conversation with the child.
The health check shall address:
1. Changes in behavior (such as lethargy or
drowsiness) or appearance from behaviors observed
during the previous day’s attendance; or noticed
during current day attendance;
2. Skin rashes, itchy skin, itchy scalp, or (during a lice
outbreak) nits;
3. Elevated body temperature, determined by taking the
child’s temperature;
4. Signs of fever such as flushed appearance or
shivering;
5. Complaints of pain or of not feeling well;
6. Other signs or symptoms of illness (such as drainage
from eyes, vomiting, diarrhea, and so on);
7. Reported illness or injury in child or family members
since last date of attendance.
It is used throughout the day to monitor a child’s health status
Hi Char,
ReplyDeleteI like the way that you broke down the vital information of your blog into numbered points. Your blog post effectively shows exactly what happens during a health assessment and what, as a teacher, parent or caregiver, to look for in children.
Many of the signs and symptoms mentioned are critical factors that can affect the learning ability of a child. It is imperative that the caregiver conduct daily health assessments to ensure the well-being of the child.
ReplyDeleteIt is very Important for teachers and health care providers to do a daily health assessment. You gave a very good description on what should be done on day to day basses.
ReplyDeleteIt is very important to perform the daily health assessments for many reasons. For example, a child may come to school with a not on his or her forehead and the parent may not have seen it when the child was bought to school. When the parent comes to pick that child up from school he or she might ask what happend to my child. The teacher can then pull out the assessment and state that he or she recorded that that the child came in the classroom with the injury. Another may be that a child comes in to school and is very sluggest and not really being his or herself. The teacher can then in return let the parent know this.
ReplyDeleteIt is very important for teachers to do have daily health assessments. You gave a very great description on what should be done it was very clear and I like how you broke it down.
ReplyDeleteThanks for giving such an in depth account of the health assessment which is exactly what each teacher should do throughout the day. Great!
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